Saturday, April 27th the 33rd edition of the Race Walk Meeting dedicated to Antanas Kazevic Mikenas (LTU) was held in Bristonas (LTU), the walker who in the 1956 edition of the Olympic Games in Melbourne obtained the silver medal in 1:32:03 behind Leonid Spirin (RUS) victorious in 1:31:27.4 which then represented the Olympic record.
Mikenas and Spirit competed at the time for the USSR, and the Lithuanian had been leading the race at 15km.
He was then notified by the Chief Judge of a caution (at the time the white flag was shown to the athletes by the only head judge when the athlete had received even one "caution") and preferred to slow down.
So it was that Leonid Spirin overtook him with 3km to go receiveing words of encouragement by Mikenas himself to continue for the victory.
Third came another Baltic, Bruno Junk (EST) in 1:32:12
They were other times.
The organizers of the Antanas MIkenas memorial want to remember this great athlete with this meeting dedicated to young people.
This year the Memorial Mikenas was also valid as the Baltic Outdoor Youth Team Championships of Race Walking.
10km U20 men
Victory to Paulius Juozaitis (LTU) in 48:48
Second place to Jaroslav Stupnikov (EST) in 56:10
Third place to Boriss Moserenoks (LAT) in 58:43
10km U20 women
Victory to Austeja Kavaliauskaite (LTU) in 52:16
Second place to Ksenija Zabalujeva (LAT) in 1:02:53
Third place to Liva Ejuba (LAT) in 1:08:06
10km U18 boys
Victory to Raivo Linins (LAT) in 51:15
Second place to Ignas Dumbliauskas (LTU) in 52:43
Third place to Justinas Galcius (LTU) in 55:38
5km U18 girls
Victory to Ekaterina Mirotvortseva (EST) in 23:51
Second place to Toma Dailidontye (LTU) in 27:24
Third place to Alla Subina (EST) in 29:06
The team standings was won by the Lithuanian team with 47 points, in front of Latvia with 41 points and Estonia with 36 points.
Full results included U16 in the section Results or directly downolad from this link: click here
